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Learn to Applique Like A Pro

To Learn to Applique Like a Pro subscribe to Jan’s tutorials for Needleturn Applique instruction and tips. Learn Applique from A to Z - from the basics of Freezer Paper Applique and the applique stitch she uses to more difficult inside and outside points, circles, curves - the list goes on. Simply click here to go to her You Tube channel and start stitching.

A little video of Jan's Latest Moda line

Lilies of the Field

Needleturn Tutorial

Cedar Creek is a great little quilt to teach needleturn appliqué. To watch the tutorial, click here.

Needleturn Applique Quilt

Jan's tutorials are all centered around her quilts. Kits and patterns for them as well as this special teaching quilt are available at our store

Available for lecture-trunkshow and workshops

Jan is available for lecture/trunkshows and workshops within a 400 mile radius of Kansas City, Mo. most months of the year. Months around Fall & Spring Market are excluded. Call us at 816-632-7632 or email janpatekquilts@yahoo.com for details.

Sneak Peek - Winter Solstice - Mystery Quilt - 2014

Background blocks for the quilt. It will of course, be covered with applique.

2015 Mystery Quilt BOM - 73" x 84"

Here is a "sneak peek" at the Mystery Quilt for next year. Jan's been playing with colors. Each month you will get one applique block. Some of the blocks with be small but others will be quite large, especially toward the end. We've evened things out by charging one flat fee for all of them. It will be $28.50 a month and that does include shipping (except for the month we send the borders). If you want in on the fun, email Tammie at janpatekquilts@centurylink.net or call her at 816-632-7632. If you belonged to the Mystery Quilt Club this year you're automatically on the list next year unless you tell us you want off. International shipments will cost the same if we ship three blocks together. Otherwise there will be an additional $15.95 each month for shipping.

Members - we're changing the way we bill the Mystery Quilt. Finding payments each month on Paypal has gotten very confusing so we ask that we charge your credit card. Saves hours of searching for payments so we can ship. So call Tammie or email her and give her your phone # so Kelly can call you. You don't want to miss a single month.

Fall Festival - 82" x 92"

2014 Mystery Quilt

Thread

Italian Cucirini Tre Stelle 60wt Egyptian Cotton Thread.

Fabric by the Yard

Mainly homespuns

Payment Options

We've built a new store where you can check out with PayPal. If you don't have an account with them you can still use your credit card on their site.

Or you can email us at janpatekquilts@yahoo.com. If you call us at 816-632-7632 and give us your credit card information, we can invoice you through Quickbooks or directly charge your credit card. For our club members, we can autobill your credit card, invoice you through Quickbooks or, if you prefer you can send a check.

Wednesday, October 27, 2010

And at home the crabapples are just gorgeous. How about that for berries, ladies. No, I'm not doing a crabapple tree - yet.

And exciting things are happening here too. The storefront where you can use Paypal is coming along nicely. The kits are all in and we're starting on the books and patterns. Check it out at janpatekquilts.goodsie.com/ (You may have to paste that in your browser. I am NOT a computer person :). Meanwhile www.janpatekquilts.com is still up and running.

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

I just love Thanksgiving. To begin with Pep and Max do nine-tenths of the cooking and even mostly clean up after themselves. I make the corn casserole, jello for the kids and a vegetable tray - they do the rest.

And I always like to make a new wallhanging or tablerunner. Turkeys are Zoie's favorite - they help her remember her pet turkey.

This year when I was over at Missouri Star Quilt Shop Jenny had this great idea for a turkey block. Together we came up with this great quick and easy tablerunner. It's our Mini Quilt Club quilt this month pictured on the right. And you don't have to get the Easy Dresden Tool to make the feathers in the kit, but it sure does make things a lot easier.

First you need 5" squares.

Each square will make 2 turkey feathers.

After you cut the feathers, fold them right sides together and stitch across the top. Snip the corner at an angle.

Then turn and wow! A turkey feather. Sew the feathers together and follow the directions in the kit to make a turkey block and a neat wallhanging or tablerunner..

This is the latest tin full of Candy Bars from Moda. Our Candy Bar is 2 1/2" x 5" strips of the prints in Linda and my line Lilac Hill showing at Fall Market. The tins will be for sale at Sample Spree.

Each tin has a pattern that comes with it. And of course when we got the news Jenny and I just had to sit down and make a little quilt of our own using a Candy Bar of Lilac Hill. Shops, be sure to grab a tin at Sample Spree. Then come see us at Booth 2021 to see our quilt and pattern.

Speaking of which, I'm off to go to Missouri Star and finish it up so I can quilt it.

Thursday, October 14, 2010

And we're back at multitasking. Clothes unpacked and washed again, ready to be ironed and packed for Market at the end of the month.

The booth unpacked and sorted, some quilts to go to France for the book I'm doing for Quiltmania, some will go over to Missouri Star Quilt Co. for display and a few I get to keep for the house.

It was a really fun festival with only a few hitches. Tara locked the keys in the car when we got there to unload but a very nice officer from the sheriff's department got us back in. Once set up, Max joined us (he had class until Wednesday evening). He and Tara took care of things on the selling and adding up end. I got to sit and chat and sew and do demonstrations on Needleturn Applique. I don't really call it work if I get to sit and sew and show ladies how easy applique can be if you just know a few tips.

The show itself was awesome. The DesMoines Guild had some great quilts.

Moda Lissawas there and posted lots of pictures on her blog so I gave you the link to her page. It is really

worth seeing - I recommend it highly. Thanks Lissa.

This seems like a good place to announce the winners of the drawing for the Free Kit. Drumm rolllll ... And the winners are ..........Linda Lyn of Newton, IA and Marilyn Holder of Fairview, TN. Congratulations ladies. Tara will be emailing you and letting you choose between Sunflowers & Scarecrows and Sue's Snowman Basket.

Here's Christmas 101 again. It's also in the strip on the right because it's the Wallhanging Club offering for the month. We're building a new storefront - with only a slight delay due to a blown motherboard on a computer. The Mini Quilts and Wallhangings are up. As you may or may not know, I'm not taking credit cards any more. I found out the hard way that the merchant is not protected with online credit card orders. If someone steals your card - or gets your card number somehow - and uses it to buy something, the cardholder is protected. The merchant is not. They simply lose their money. Mastercard and Visa are not set up to verify that the person buying online and receiving the goods is indeed the cardholder. Paypal is. They are set up for online buying and selling.

If you're a Wallhanging Club member or anyone else who wants to buy the kit, click on the picture to the right and it will take you to the storefront. If you just want to look at the storefront, type janpatekquilts.goodsie.com/(no www.)in your browser or just click on it. If you don't have an account with Paypal, it's very easy to set one up. We're also looking into Amazon.com and Google.com to accept payments.

Did I mention that the trailer had a flat tire on the way home. The show ended at 5:00, we were packed by 7:00 and I got home around 2:00 a.m.

Monday, October 4, 2010

I think everything happens in October. The apples are ready to be juiced and sauced, the peppers are ready, hens are still laying so we have hen fruit too. The green beans are ready too so we had a big mess for Sunday dinner along with the roast. And of course, Pep has to make bread.

Meanwhile, besides picking veggies and washing clothes, we been packing. This morning we're off to Des Moines.

And here's a sneek peek at one of the quilts we'll have along.

Christmas 101 is one of my favorite quilts lately. Come see it (and me) in person. I'll be doing Needleturn Applique demonstrations every day.

Google Website Translator Gadget

Country Quilts for Your Soul

signed copy

Spike

Home Sweet Home

Table Stand Mini Quilt

Contact Us

To order any of the quilts or books seen on our blog you can go to our storefront janpatekquilts.goodsie.com/(usually by clicking on the picture). You can also email us at janpatekquilts@centurylink.net or call 816-632-7632. Please do not email me at the gmail address or the info@janpatekquilts address because I don't know how to get them and I'm not sure why they're up.

We hope we have solved the problem with our email but - If you don't get an answer in a day or two (excluding weekends) please call or email again.

Spring Break - Fabric packs

Spring Break Fabric Packs

We have a very limited number of fabric packs for each section as they appear in the magazine. They are for the fabrics only.

There will be a few substitutions on the green fabrics but we have everything else.

And this way, you can pay for the fabric in sections.

The price of the kits will vary according to how much fabric is in them. The total will probably not be over $200.00 but could be less. As you know with a kit, you're not only paying for fabric but for the labor involved.

And - even if I do say so myself - it's an awesome quilt.

Call Tammie at 816-632-7632 of email her at janpatekquilts@centurylink.net.

Section 1 Fabric Pack

Cost is $22.50 - Call Tammie at 816-632-7632 to order all four

Frosty's Friend

Table Stand Mini Quilt

On His Way

Table Stand Mini Quilt

Hand Picked Pumpkin

Tablestand Mini Quilt/Calendar Quilt

Back to School

Table Stand Mini Quilt/Calendar Quilt

Prize Watermelon

Table Stand Mini/Calendar Quilt

Wings of Freedom

Table Stand/Calendar quilt

Double Wedding Ring

Table Stand/Calendar Quilt

May Flowers

Click on the picture to watch the tutorial

April Showers

To watch the tutorial, click on the picture.

Calendar Quilt/Table Stand 2014 BOM

For tutorial click on the picture

March Hare Log Cabin

For kit or pattern click on picture.

Calendar Quilt - 76" x 76"

Borders will be charged seperately

Table Stand/ Calendar Quilt BOM

We do 2 BOM's each year - usually our larger quilts. This one starts in March each year and this year we're doing something a little different and lots of fun!

Each month you will get a 12" applique block (March Hare, April Showers, etc) and a 12" log cabin block. And we'll do a tutorial on You Tube each month on the appliqué block so you can follow it there. You can either use them as Table Stand Quilts or sew them together to make a larger quilt - or both. How cool would it be to have a large quilt on the couch or bed and then change the Table Stand each month.

The cost is $25.00 a month + S&H (Priority Mail). If you decide to do 2 blocks each month - 1 for the Table Stand and 1 for a large quilt the cost is only $40.00 for both. If you want to sign up for the whole year email Tori at janpatekquilts@yahoo.com or call her at 816-632-7632.

You can buy patterns for the individual blocks on the website. You can buy kits there too but I'd sign up if you want to be sure to get it. When the fabrics gone, it's gone and we take care of club people first.

Spring Break

2013 BOM

We have a Booth at the Iron Horse - 207 W. 3rd St.

Small things only. Visit Crossroads or Mo. Star for larger items

Wooly Bully & Sniff - RIP

Making lots of berries

Click on the berries to go to the tutorial

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About Me

I've been designing primitive folk art quilts and publishing the patterns in books for more than 20 years. I also design original fabric lines for Moda. My most recent fabric line is Front Porch that shipped to stores in January. I've also started doing Needleturn Applique tutorials on You Tube. You can see them by going to my channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/JanPatekQuilts.
I love making quilts - it's what I do. And I don’t want to make quilts and put them in a closet. I want to provide a creative outlet for others.
I'd love to have you visit my store.